What can we expect of race?

What do we expect of an unjust system, an unfair practice that bases human value and purpose on the social coloring of skin?  Why do we ask of skin, look to the surface to give our lives and the lives we live with others a deeper meaning?  Why place such an expectation on race? Why […]

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We are predominately, majority

We are predominately spirit, more spirit than flesh, more breath than earth. We are majority spirit, more than a number, made of a substance that cannot be counted. We are predominately us; there really is no “them,” no human being outside of our shared humanity.  We are all strangers, all immigrants, all travelers passing through this world. […]

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Dear Body of Christ

Dear Body of Christ, We are the Body of Christ, not the race or races of Christ.  We are not colors but the children of God, not stereotypes but the saints of God, not prejudicial guesses but members of a royal priesthood.  I thought that we were called to walk in the spirit not after […]

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What more can we say about race?

“I’m a problem.  You’re a problem.  We’re all a problem.”  That about sums up any conversation on race. We have told “them” and “you people” how we feel for more than four hundred years and there have been responses.  We have enslaved, traded, murdered, marched, sat in, sung about it, been falsely accused, jailed and […]

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How to start a post- racial conversation

We talk a lot about what race has done to and for us, what race is doing to and for us, how we cannot live without race, how there is no existence a part from race.  What we do not talk about is what we can do to race, how we can change and certainly […]

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